Conveners
Parallel Session - Direct Detection / Light DM
- Gloria Luzón Marco (CAPA, Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))
Parallel Session - Direct Detection / Light DM
- rocio vilar (IFCA)
Parallel Session - Direct Detection / Light DM
- Guillaume Giroux (Queen's University)
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Nuria Castello-Mor (IFCA (CSIC-UC))02/06/2026, 17:10DDLDMOral presentation
The DAMIC-M (DArk Matter In CCDs at Modane) experiment is scheduled to begin operations at the Modane underground laboratory (LSM) in late 2026. This talk presents the current status of the project, highlighting recent results from its prototype—the Low-Background Chamber (LBC). Data from the LBC have been used to exclude theoretical benchmarks where hidden-sector particles make up the...
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Ansh Desai (University of Oregon)02/06/2026, 17:30DDLDMOral presentation
SENSEI (Sub-Electron Noise Skipper Experimental Instrument) is the first experiment to implement the Skipper-CCD technology in particular to search for light dark matter.. These sensors have single electron resolution in millions of pixels, which when coupled with the small band gap of silicon enables these detectors to be uniquely sensitive to DM-electron scattering processes. SENSEI has...
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rocio vilar (IFCA)02/06/2026, 17:50DDLDMOral presentation
DAMIC-M (DArk Matter in CCDs at Modane) is an ongoing direct detection dark matter (DM) experiment located at the Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM). The extremely low energy threshold of Skipper CCDs enables the exploration of previously inaccessible regions of the DM parameter space, particularly for MeV-scale particles interacting with electrons through a U(1) mediator.
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Won Kyung Kim (University of Science & Technology (UST), IBS School)02/06/2026, 18:10DDLDMOral presentation
We report new constraints on the spin-dependent (SD) dark matter (DM)-proton cross section using the COSINE-100 experiment at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory.
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By implementing a specialized event selection including Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) training, this analysis achieves a detection threshold of 3- and 4-pulse clusters corresponding to the few photoelectrons. This allows us to access... -
Lex Millins02/06/2026, 18:30DDLDMOral presentation
Many dark matter experiments are exploiting the Migdal effect, a rare atomic process, to improve sensitivity to low-mass WIMP-like dark matter candidates. Following the recent first observation of the Migdal effect in nuclear scattering [1] the characterisation of the effect and measurements of the cross-section in a range of elements is of great importance to the DM community. The MIGDAL...
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Dr Liangliang Su (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))02/06/2026, 18:50DDLDMOral presentation
The electron ionization channel of the Migdal effect in dark matter-nucleus scattering has been shown to enhance sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter. In this work, we demonstrate for the first time that lower energy electron excitations can also provide a novel and promising pathway, enabling detection of even lighter dark matter previously inaccessible to direct searches. Direct detection...
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Dr Lachlan Milligan (University of Birmingham)03/06/2026, 15:00DDLDMOral presentation
DarkSPHERE is a next generation spherical proportional counter to explore light dark matter candidates in the 0.05 - 10 GeV mass range. To maximise radiopurity, the detector is planned to be fully electroformed underground at the Boulby Underground Laboratory. This approach opens up the potential to achieve sensitivity reaching the neutrino fog in the 1 GeV region. In this talk, current...
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Guillaume Giroux (Queen's University)03/06/2026, 15:20DDLDMOral presentation
The NEWS-G experiment searches for low-mass dark matter using spherical proportional counters (SPCs), a detector technology combining ultra-low energy thresholds with scalable target masses. In an SPC, ionization produced by particle interactions in a gaseous target drifts toward a central high-voltage anode, where amplification in a strong radial electric field allows for the detection of...
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Álvaro Ezquerro Sastre (Universidad de Zaragoza)03/06/2026, 15:40DDLDMOral presentation
The TREX-DM experiment is a high-pressure gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC), located at Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC, 2500 m.w.e.), conceived to search for low-mass WIMPs (m < 10 GeV/c2) using novel radiopure Micromegas detectors. In order to be competitive in this low-mass region, TREX-DM faces the challenges of very low background level (order 1 c/keV/day/kg), low energy...
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Dr Ying-Ting Lin (University of Münster, Institute for Nuclear physics)03/06/2026, 16:00DDLDMOral presentation
The XENONnT experiment utilizes a dual‑phase liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber (TPC) to search for dark matter and other rare events. In addition to its primary nuclear-recoil (NR) search channel, XENONnT has achieved unprecedentedly low background rates in the electron-recoil (ER) channel. With extensive mitigation and active reduction efforts, the dominant ER background from radon...
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Francesco Toschi (Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Heidelberg Universität)03/06/2026, 16:20DDLDMOral presentation
The Direct search Experiment for Light dark matter (DELight) aims at combining the scalability of noble liquid detectors, currently setting the strongest limits on heavy Dark Matter (DM) candidates, and the low energy threshold of solid state detectors, with energy resolutions of the order of 1 eV. These properties are combined with an increased recoil signal coming from the choice of a very...
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Francesca Pucci (LNGS)04/06/2026, 15:00DDLDMOral presentation
CRESST (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) is a direct-detection experiment that searches for dark matter through elastic scattering off nuclei in cryogenic calorimeters operated at temperatures of about 15 mK. Thanks to energy thresholds of O(10 eV), CRESST achieves sensitivity to dark matter in the sub-GeV mass range, reaching unprecedented performance in this...
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Giorgio Del Castello (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy))04/06/2026, 15:20DDLDMOral presentation
BULLKID-DM is a new experiment designed to search for low-mass WIMP-like dark matter particles (1~GeV/c$^2$ or below) with nucleon cross-sections below 10$^{-41}$~cm$^2$. The detector consists of an 800~g array of over 2000 silicon dice, each acting as a particle absorber instrumented with multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs). Background rejection is achieved through a fully active...
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Daniel McKinsey (University of California, Berkeley)04/06/2026, 15:40DDLDMOral presentation
The TESSERACT project will search for sub-GeV dark matter via multiple complementary advanced, ultra-sensitive phonon detectors, sensitive to nuclear-type, electron-type, and dark photon-type DM interactions, using three detector technologies: superfluid helium (HeRALD), polar crystals (GaAs and sapphire, SPICE), and germanium/silicon bolometers. Those detectors will share Transition Edge...
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Kyle Kennard (Northwestern University)04/06/2026, 16:00DDLDMOral presentation
The SuperCDMS-HVeV (High-Voltage with eV resolution) program is an
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R&D project focused on developing detectors with low energy resolution to search for low-mass dark matter (≲ 1 GeV/c^2), study charge-transport in cryogenically cooled crystals, and probe unclassified backgrounds at low energy. The program utilizes gram-scale silicon detectors instrumented with TES (transition-edge... -
Dounia Helis (INFN-LNGS)04/06/2026, 16:20DDLDMOral presentation
The DAREDEVIL (DARk-mattEr-DEVIces-for-Low-energy-detection) project aims to develop a new generation of detectors to search for dark matter candidates with masses below 1 GeV/c². The detection strategy relies on dark matter–electron scattering, where the excitation energy of electrons must match the momentum transferred in the interaction. Therefore, materials with very small energy gaps (of...
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